Govt targets to vaccinate all citizens by Sept-Oct: CM

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaJuly 13, 2021

The state government has set a target to complete the COVID-19 vaccination of all eligible citizens within the next two-three months.

“We need to enhance our vaccination to 20,000 – 25,000 per day (so that) we should be able to complete the vaccination of all eiligible population by the end of September or early of October,” Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma said. 

Sangma had attended a meeting convened by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi via video conferencing with all the Chief Ministers of the North East region on Tuesday.

He said the positivity rate has come down below 10 percent in the state adding there are two districts as of now which are seeing 10 plus percentage of positivity rate.

Stating that the big concern for the state is the vaccination drive, the Chief Minister said, “We are still below the national average in certain cases. Therefore, we are pushing that in a mission mode.” 

“We have asked the MLAs, MDCs, different relgious leaders, headmen, civil societies and all to help and contribute towards how we could enhance the vaccination drive.

We have seen positive results in the last few days but we are very hopeful that we will see the rate of vaccination go up and even higher in the coming weeks and months,” he said. 

The Chief Minister also thanked the government of India and the Prime Minister for their continuous support during these difficult times. 

“Government of India has been very generous in giving the vaccination free of cost to all population above the age of 18 and at the same government of India has also supplied us the oxygen plants for different districts. Approximately 14 of them have been sanctioned by government of India (besides) oxygen cyliners, oxygen concentrators and different equipments and health infrastructure,” he said. 

Sangma said all the CMs also thanked the Prime Minister and govt of India for their continuous support in the fight against the COVID-19.

He informed that the Prime Minister has urged all the CMs to pay more attention to the vaccination drive as it is the only way to really beat COVID-19.